PLAY IT
FOR ME...
GUSTAW HOLOUBEK
IN MEMORIAM

Concert programme:

Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major BWV 564 for organ
Arrangement for piano: Ferruccio Busoni
Adagio
Janusz Olejniczak - piano

Gustaw Holoubek
Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus (excerpt) – On Music

Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite No. 3 in C Major BWV 1009 for solo cello
Prelude, Allemande, Courante
Marcel Markowski - cello

Gustaw Holoubek
Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus (excerpt)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite No. 3 in C Major BWV 1009 for solo cello
Sarabande
Bouree - Bouree II - Bouree I Da Capo
Marcel Markowski - cello

Gustaw Holoubek
Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus (excerpt)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite No. 3 in C Major BWV 1009 for solo cello
Gigue
Marcel Markowski - cello

Gustaw Holoubek
Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus (excerpt) - Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor Op. 111
First movement Arietta: Adagio molto, semplice e cantabile
Piotr Sałajczyk - piano

Concert co-organizers: Polish Radio 2 Fryderyk Chopin Institute

Thomas Mann Doctor Faustusexcerpts courtesy of Polish RadioRecordings based on the Polish Radio adaptation © S.Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 1960, 1974 © for the Polish translation by Leszek Szaruga ℗ Polskie Radio, 1986

Historical Erard piano from 1849 courtesy of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute

“Today, when after all these years we look upon the output of this artist, we have in mind mainly his voice recognizable after the first syllable and familiar face – piercing eyes, sadness mixed with irony or with a pale smile – and we think in awe of his titanic work, which he put into construction of nearly three hundred creations: theater, film, television, and radio ones. But that’s not all. He was also director, teacher in the acting school, and social activist: taking the floor, leading, even becoming a Member of Parliament.

And yet it all seems not to be the most important. Not the gigantic effort, not the brilliant talent and not the social sensitivity (without which, of course, there would be nothing to talk about), but something that is superior to these attributes: namely, belief in the ideal and the upper world as well as a sense of mission to remind of them – to bring closer their light in the darkness of “miserable time”.

Antoni Libera